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From a late Bermuda Paper.

TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.

The address of the General Assembly of Bermuda.

"May it please your excellency!

"We his majesty's faithful and loyal subjects, the General Assembly of Bermuda, beg leave to assure your excellency that we are deeply impressed with the injurious consequences which have resulted to the interests of the colony from the long interruption of the public business; and that your excellency may be confident that we feel an earnest desire for a removal of the impediments which have hitherto subsisted. With the concurrence of your excellency, in such measures as are essential to the welfare of the colony, we have no doubt that this and many beneficial objects may be attained.

We shall most cheerfully avail ourselves of the earliest opportunity which may be afforded us of raising the necessary supplies for the support of his majesty's government, and liquidating the demands of public creditors.

"We are truly sensible of the real distress and alarm in which the greater part of the community, and more particularly the poorer classes thereof, are at the present moment involved for the want of food: and this distress and alarm afflict us the more when we reflect that they might have been prevented, had your excellency not extended your favor to certain individuals by allowing them to export, contrary to your own embargo or prohibitory proclamation, a considerable quantity of provisions, while there was a prospect of an approaching famine. As no calamity can exceed that of starvation, we certainly are desirous and ready to adopt any and every measure of relief within our power.

"The framing and passing a law for the establishment of an efficient militia is an object that will claim our early attention."

On motion of Mr. B. D. Harvey the House came to the following resolution, viz.

Resolved, As the opinion of this House, that any attempt of any branch of the legislature to control or coerce this house, or any member thereof in his legislative capacity, into any measure whatever, is a dangerous innovation of our constitutional rights and privileges, and would if consented to, destroy the fundamental principles of legislation and with them the happiness of the colony.

Resolved, Also, as the opinion of this House, that a disposition to perpetrate so gross an evil should be viewed with horror, and is at least sufficient to remove every confidence of this house, and of the community at large, from the quarter in which such disposition is entertained.

Resolved, Also, as the opinion of this House, that no Speaker nor any other member thereof, nor any person in consequence of his having been a Speaker, or other member of the general assembly, is authorised to attend or assist at the qualification of any person whatever as public Treasurer, without a particular order or authority of this House.

Resolved, Also, as the opinion of this House, that the Court of Chancery of this colony committing to jail a member of this House, namely John Noble Harvey, Esq. as the late Speaker of the Assembly, was no less an act of oppression and a gross infraction of the constitutional rights and privileges of our colonial parliament, than an indignity offered to our constituents: moreover the imprisonment of the late Speaker was the more aggravated in consequence of his having been prejudged and his accusers being his judges.

Resolved, Also, as the opinion of this House, that the said infraction of our constitutional rights and privileges tends to destroy that cordiality which this house has ever sought consistent with propriety, to cultivate and maintain with the other branches of the legislature.

Shortly after the return of the two members who waited on his excellency the governor with the messages of the House of this day, Mr. Secretary Masterman came to the session House and affixed to the door thereof his excellency the Governor's proclamation of this date dissolving the Colonial Parliament.

J. ZUILL
Clerk of the Assembly.